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...What will he do next?" was the question in university circles when Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn resigned the presidency of Amherst College last year after a lively spat over educational theories with the alumni and trustees (TIME, June 25, 1923, et seq.). Last week the Boston Transcript published an answer to the question...
According to the Transcript, Dr. Meiklejohn had spent most of his time, since resigning and making a country-wide lecture tour, in conferring with friends and associates over plans for a $3,000,000 "independent" college. A site had not been picked, but it seemed likely some abandoned school plant might be bought for reasons of economy. The faculty had not been announced, but would probably include a number of Amherst professors who resigned with Dr. Meiklejohn. The en dowment millions and the new student body were still missing, but were doubtless to be recruited among people who have confidence...
...fires of controversy over liberalism which blazed viciously at Amherst upon the resignation of President Meiklejohn last June have apparently burned out; but rather than dross and ashes they have left a refined conception of a liberal college which has found expression in the program published by twenty-six alumni in the Amherst Student. There is nothing remarkable, however, in either the ideas or their phrasing. The definition that "a liberal college must be one in which the intellectual aim is dominant" and one which will thoroughly ground the student in the essentials of "an intelligent scheme of values...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, quondam President of Amherst College, was forced out of that post last Spring (TIME, June 25, July 2), supposedly because of his too-liberal opinions. Whether his opinions are pink, yellow, black or white, it is easy to understand how they can make enemies on account of the manner of their expression. An example of this was furnished last week when Dr. Meiklejohn made an address to the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. His words, if typical, denote a new period in the history of education, as compared to the diction of the Eliots, the Dwights...
...teacher has two main articles of faith, according to Doctor Meiklejohn, and the first of these is that he must not be swayed from his own opinion by popular prejudice. Putting the thesis contrariwise, for the man in the street" to tell the teacher, the specialist in thinking, at what conclusion he must arrive is as absurd as for the patient to tell the doctor what kind of medicine to use. This doctrine is all right so long as the teacher remembers that he is the teacher and not the master of his pupil's mind. Let him advance...